The North-South Divide || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Hindi as a national link language? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Ropar (2022)

Transcript

00:00When people in Delhi talk of Hindi as a national language or a link language,

00:05it makes the people in South both insecure and also resistant,

00:09angry, because they are seeing the kind of discrepancy and imbalance.

00:13There is no reciprocity.

00:14And I will side with my countrymen from the South.

00:17If I belong to the South, I would say, well, I have no problems.

00:21Hindi is an important language.

00:23Hindi is a language of my country.

00:25But tell me, please, is the onus of learning a language from another region

00:31only on the Southerners?

00:33The Northerners will not even try to learn any language apart from their own.

00:40And if you can speak a bit of Tamil,

00:41you will find you will happily reciprocate by speaking a bit of Hindi.

00:45And that's the way healthy relationships are.